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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 03:44 PM Apr 2013

DA's In Kansas Now Could Investigate The Demise Of A Zygote Or Fetus.

Thanks to personhood, women who do any harm to their unborn fetus or zygote could be in legal trouble. And it would be a classic catch 22.

With onerous TRAP laws closing female health clinics women face a tough choice. Women who cannot afford medical care or insurance face risk with no access to prenatal care. If anything bad happens women face possible prosecution.

Regardless of the details of the law aggressive DA's would be tempted to make an example of women who intentionally or unintentionally harmed the unborn fetus.

Personhood opens up a truly vicious Pandora's box for women in Kansas. And it poses a real dilemma for doctors and health practitioners who could be charged as accessories if health care were inadequate or deemed improper by the authorities.

Small government is only for the big guy, the rich or corporations. Big intrusive government is only for the little guy who cannot fight back.

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Xipe Totec

(43,889 posts)
1. If they are bored to tears and have nothing better to do,
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 03:45 PM
Apr 2013

like pluck their eyelashes one by one,

or wax their butt...

Gin

(7,212 posts)
4. Next females will be forced to provide monthly proof they arent pregnant..
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 03:48 PM
Apr 2013

What the hell is happening in Kansas?

hedda_foil

(16,372 posts)
5. "Small government is only for the big guy, the rich or corporations."
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 03:58 PM
Apr 2013


"Small government is only for the big guy, the rich or corporations. Big intrusive government is only for the little guy who cannot fight back."

Hekate

(90,642 posts)
6. As Ellen Goodman once wrote: Will they hold a funeral ...
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 04:05 PM
Apr 2013

... over a menstrual pad?

In reference to the uncounted numbers of unimplanted zygotes that are flushed away by Mother Nature every single month.

RKP5637

(67,103 posts)
9. KS is going to put the Taliban to shame ... KS is trying to go
Sun May 12, 2013, 03:20 PM
May 2013

way beyond the Taliban. ... wait 'till the next elections and they kick out any remaining politician with even a hint of being moderate. ... the democrats often don't even run candidates anymore ... and even a hint of being a moderate republican will get you kicked out of office or ostracized.

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